Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse & Adult Survi

This much-needed book points out and corrects misinformation that everyone who works with victims, offenders, or families in which sexual abuse has occurred needs to understand clearly. Especially vital in today's political climate, Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors gives you state-of-the-science information on such myths as false memory syndrome, recovered memory therapy, and the lack of harm to some sexually abused boys. Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors examines: forensic issues, including the false memory defence and how the long-term impact of childhood sexual abuse is often misrepresented in court: three separate expert examinations of Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman's well-known - and often misrepresented--review of long-term child sexual abuse outcomes; treatment recommendations and guidelines for addressing the memory controversy in clinical practice; the fascinating case history/cautionary tale of the child molester Robert Halsey, who was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences in 1993, and how public and academic resources were misused to claim he was wrongly convicted.